Matthew Matty Matt Mackalinie, was born and raised on the mean streets of Warsaw Indiana. A small little town just north of some other small little town that you’ve probably never heard of. Some people call Warsaw the Orthopedic Capitol of the world. Matty Matt calls it “The place I lived, until I didn’t live there anymore”. 

Matty Matt or Lizard Face The Great (as most people in Warsaw knew him) lived in Warsaw for a few years. No one is quite sure how many years he lived in Warsaw. We tried to track down his parents to try and figure out how many years it was that he lived there. But his parents are just a couple of jabronies that don’t know no better bout nothing.

So.

Eventually Matty Matt or Gepetto Leroy Jonson (as he was known around this time) was banished from the small little town of Warsaw for being too cool and also way too overwhelming freaking awesome.

As time passed (around three hours or so) he made his way to Indianapolis in pursuit of a goal.

When I asked him about this goal of his he said “Listen, sometimes you gotta go do stuff to make that cheddar.” “The way I see it is Warsaw was all out of the cheese you know what I mean?” “Indy on the other hand. Indy’s looking good.” “It stinks here.” “It stinks like a fresh gouda in the morning.” “Especially downtown with all of that sewer gas and what not.” “It’s got that sweet provolone tang to the air, ya know?” “You can almost taste it” Then he gave me a thumbs up, and a wink. Threw a buy one get one free coupon for an Arby’s beef and cheddar at me, then disappeared into a thousand different birds.

Matthew Matty Matt Mackalinie’s artwork has been praised by critics, art enthusiasts, collectors, and various cults as being “Fine” and also “Okay”. His work is inspired by Saturday morning cartoons, comic books, the absurdity that is humanity, music, cereal, the decaying state of our world, Mad Magazine, class warfare, street art, comedy, and the never ending fight against corporate imperialism.

He is a self taught artist whose work is based in absurd surrealist bullshit expressionism which is a skill taught by no one and is mostly made up.

He works with pens and pencils, ink and acrylics, stuff, things, and all that shit.

He wins awards.

He goes to festivals.

He’s got three pairs of shoes.

And has his own website.

This is that website.

He hopes you fucking enjoyed it.

Thank you for visiting.

MM